How do they match: Marine Engineers and Naval Architects

  • Inspect marine equipment and machinery to draw up work requests and job specifications.
  • Maintain contact with, and formulate reports for, contractors and clients to ensure completion of work at minimum cost.
  • Oversee construction and testing of prototype in model basin and develop sectional and waterline curves of hull to establish center of gravity, ideal hull form, and buoyancy and stability data.
  • Prepare plans, estimates, design and construction schedules, and contract specifications, including any special provisions.
  • Review work requests and compare them with previous work completed on ships to ensure that costs are economically sound.

  • Direct construction activities.
  • Prepare detailed work plans.
  • Review technical documents to plan work.